17-letter words containing u, m, r
- consumer research — business: investigation of behaviors
- consumer sampling — a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
- consumer spending — the percentage of an economy that is accounted for by what consumers spend
- consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
- consumer-advocate — Also called consumer advocate. a person who is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of consumers.
- contemporaneously — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
- contempt of court — Contempt of court is the criminal offence of disobeying an instruction from a judge or a court of law.
- copious free time — (jargon) (Apple; originally from the introduction to Tom Lehrer's song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier") Used ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in question; a mythical schedule slot for accomplishing tasks held to be unlikely or impossible. Sometimes used to indicate that the speaker is interested in accomplishing the task, but believes that the opportunity will not arise. "I'll implement the automatic layout stuff in my copious free time." The phrase is also used for time reserved for bogus or otherwise idiotic tasks, such as implementation of bad chrome, or the stroking of suits. "I'll get back to him on that feature in my copious free time."
- corpus cavernosum — either of two masses of erectile tissue in the penis of mammals
- corpus spongiosum — a mass of tissue that, with the corpora cavernosa, forms the erectile tissue of the penis of mammals
- costume jewellery — Costume jewellery is jewellery made from cheap materials.
- counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
- counter-migration — a migration in the opposite direction.
- country gentleman — a rich man with an estate in the country
- crampon technique — a climbing style that uses crampons
- creature comforts — Creature comforts are the things that you need to feel comfortable in a place, for example good food and modern equipment.
- credit memorandum — a memorandum issued to an account allowing a credit or reducing a debit, especially one posted to a customer's account.
- cruciate ligament — A cruciate ligament is either of a pair of ligaments that cross at the knee.
- curie-temperature — the temperature beyond that at which a ferromagnetic substance exhibits paramagnetism.
- customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
- customs clearance — the permission to take goods into or out of a country once customs requirements have been satisfied
- cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
- d&o insurance — D&O insurance is a personal liability insurance that provides cover to the directors and senior executives of a company.
- damp-proof course — A damp-proof course is the same as a damp course.
- deconstructionism — The belief in, or application of, deconstruction.
- deduction theorem — the property of many formal systems that the conditional derived from a valid argument by taking the conjunction of the premises as antecedent and the conclusion as consequent is true
- democritus junior — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
- denominate number — a number associated with a unit of measurement.
- diaphragm shutter — a camera shutter having a group of overlapping blades that open and close at the center when exposing film.
- dieu et mon droit — God and my right: motto of the Royal Arms of Great Britain
- dining room suite — a set of furniture used in a dining room
- director of music — a person in charge of musical training and performance at an institution such as a college, especially the head bandmaster of a military band
- dispersive medium — a substance in which waves of different frequencies travel at different speeds
- document examiner — (hypertext, tool) A high-performance hypertext system by Symbolics that provides on-line access to their user documentation.
- douglas macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
- dynamic insurance — Dynamic insurance is a type of insurance coverage where the policyholder can choose to increase benefits and premiums by a fixed percentage each year to offset the effects of inflation.
- electrometallurgy — metallurgy involving the use of electric-arc furnaces, electrolysis, and other electrical operations
- emission spectrum — the continuous spectrum or pattern of bright lines or bands seen when the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a substance is passed into a spectrometer. The spectrum is characteristic of the emitting substance and the type of excitation to which it is subjected
- empirical formula — a chemical formula indicating the proportion of each element present in a molecule
- enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
- error of judgment — a wrong or bad decision
- fair market value — The fair market value of an asset is what a willing buyer would pay a willing seller for it on the open market.
- farming community — a community where farming is the main industry
- fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
- first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
- flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
- four-eyed opossum — a small opossum, Metachirops (Philander) opossum, ranging from Mexico to Brazil, having a white spot above each eye.
- four-part harmony — harmony in which each chord has four tones, creating, in sum, four melodic lines.
- fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
- freedmen's bureau — an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.